We have been focusing on the word:
Whanaungatanga
1. (noun) relationship,
kinship, sense of family connection - a relationship through shared experiences
and working together which provides people with a sense of belonging. It
develops as a result of kinship rights and obligations, which also serve to
strengthen each member of the kin group. It also extends to others to whom one
develops a close familial, friendship or reciprocal relationship.
Whilst learning about each other and the way which we work, what we like doing and setting goals for 2016. The first task we did was self portraits. We created images of ourselves and what we look like. Together these have been put on the wall to symbolise the group and connection we have as a classroom working together this year.
We were then lucky enough to have Cassandra come in and design a classroom waka for us! It looks fantastic so thanks Cassandra so much. The children decorated a person as themselves to put inside our waka. Our waka represents our learning group and that we are on a journey through our learning this year. Next we will create oar's with what value or attribute we bring to our learning waka.
He
waka eke noa.
We are all
in this together.
Finally we have completed a piece of work about, "Where did our shoes take us this Summer?" The children had to think about what they could see, smell, hear, taste or touch while visiting a place they went to over Summer. There is some excellent writing here and all pieces provide us a benchmark to start with for our writing for the year.
Come in and see all of our amazing work- we would love to share it all with you.
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